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UPDATE: 5/31/2009 – after a considerable and prolonged debate and discussion I’ve been having with myself and ever increasing amount of lame comments just to have a backlink I decided to draw the line and remove the DOFOLLOW plugin. People just don’t know when to stop …
The rel=nofollow attribute has been around now for a few years, and was introduced to discourage abuse perpetrated by those who would aggressively post comments to blogs for a link: The objective was to discourage and hopefully put an end to comment spam.
If you have been running a blog for more than 6 months you know just how bad the situation is: without some sort of protection your blog is exposed to some of the worst spam out there. Just a few months ago Minister of Education here in Italy (Fioroni) set up his blog and was inundated with porno spam making him look like the fool on a hill.
Spam is here and is not likely to disappear in the near future unless global action is taken against spammers and it’s gonna be a cold day in hell before that happens. So while we are all so busy trying to find new ways to network and promote our sites, we are missing out on a great opportunity to increase our exposure and, if we are good at it, our reputation. What’s the missed opportunity ?
The nofollow on our blogs. Just think of all the comments you have left on blogs where your link was neutralized by an automatic rel=nofollow. So I’ve decided to do away with the rel=nofollow – the hell with it. What are the disadvantages to eliminating the rel=nofollow attribute? You’re giving away some of your link juice. What are the advantages to eliminating the rel=nofollow attribute? I think they outweigh the disadvantages by far – let’s take a closer look:
- Releasing your link love into the web is an open act of honesty that will pay: what goes around comes around.
- Bloggers will be more inclined to leave a comment on your blog. Let’s be honest, you’ll take the time to leave a comment if you’re really motivated or I get hot under the collar because of something that is being said. In all other circumstances you’re really not motivated to leave feedback, and we know that search engines take into consideration comments that are left on blogs as an indicator of relevance. We all ask ourselves what’s in it for me ? He gets a comment and I get a dead link – big deal !
- Eliminating rel=nofollow increases your exposure. As these links are now active they will be used by the search engines and technorati . People looking at back links will find links coming from your blog and perhaps pay you a visit. It’s another way of promoting your blog.
I stripped the rel=nofollow from my blog – yes that’s right, if you leave a comment you’ll get a legitimate link that you’ll see as a backlink to you in the search engines and technorati. I do moderate my comments so if you wish to leave your considerations on the i follow movement please do – but remember it’s gotta be relevant and good quality. Here are some site you’ll need to visit for more information on do follow.
And now to some link love … If you’re a wordpress blogger, here is the link to the do follow plugin. The DoFollow Blog list is courtesy of Courtney Tuttle and was created originally by Coleen as the D-List. You can find some do follow buttons here.
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many thanks for this wonderful post.
thanks for your post…it’s great and I believe that the no-follow attribute shouldn’t be used anymore
dofollow but iam using joomla
You know, I think you are right. I believe the nofollow movement is a big failure. It really doesn’t prevent spam because most spam is done by auto bots. Spam detectors work much better at preventing spam. Autobots still hit sites that use the nofollow tag. I have also made my site a dofollow blog, because if someone is going to take the time to leave me a comment, I can at least pass them a little link juice
Sound interesting… thanks for this site.
hackers’ll find their ways follow or not, the advantages of do follow r remarkable.
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Nice Post. I think we all discourage porno website and spam comments. Yeah post was very informatics. I was wondering why people use nofollow ?
know your post clear all my questions. After reading your post i think sometimes giving nofollow is not bad. We could say that nofollow is a way to protect against spam.
Nice blog, you make some good points, I agree that the pros do outweigh the cons.
I entirely agree in that dofollow is the way to go, I’ve also recently switched my blog to this as well! It’s always a way to attract new readers and have them want to comment, not counting the links/traffic you’d get from dofollow blog lists.
And even if you get spam comments, at least moderation before a comment is published would be getting rid of quite a few of them.
Thanks to very good spam protection we can forget dofollow
Onestly told, I rather comment blog if I know that it’s dofollow.
I think you made the right choice here I believe the value traffic you get webmasters knowing of the Do-Follow will far out weigh the NO-Follow points
people believe that if you link out to other sites it weakens yours
that is totally not true, google and the other search engines don’t operate that way
if that was the case no one would link out at all
Dave is right, it is not logical that if you link your site will get less value. Actually it’s totaly the opposite. If you link to high quality sites you get value too.
nice blog! I love do-follow and cant think of never using it. i think the whole concept of no-follow is ludicrous. It is great to help all of us communicate on a better level and understand what each of person has to offer.
ah this is great another do-follow blog
nice blog and thanks for sharing = which is caring!
Sadly.Some of this blogs is nofollow now.
I think it is very difficult to extract do follow blogs from a list. Fortunately D-list is the best list so far I have got. Anyhow I am compiling a list on my own and shall start a google’s custom search engine page very soon.
This is a really cool blog! I wish I had found it sooner. Keep up the good work.
It annoys me how some people put in keywords instead of their name when commenting.
My website (www.syncrat.com) removes nofollow on helpful comments as a way of saying thank you.
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